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:lol: :lol: Beware the door-to-door free breast exam guy 76-year-old Florida man arrested after two women take him up on the offer MIAMI - A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams and was charged with sexually assaulting...

Report: Americans fleeing nation's big cities People moving further from metropolitan areas in search of cheaper homes WASHINGTON - Americans are leaving the nation’s big cities in search of cheaper homes and open spaces farther out. Nearly every large metropolitan area had more people move...

101-pound man eats 6,500 calories a day Stomach condition keeps 22-year-old from putting on weight IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day — two and a half times the average intake for an adult male — has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound...

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan accused Hamas activists of smuggling missiles and other weapons into the kingdom and said Tuesday it was canceling a planned visit of the Palestinian foreign minister — the second diplomatic snub for the Hamas-led government in a week. Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud...

By James Bone China and Russia last night thwarted a year-long diplomatic drive by Britain to impose United Nations sanctions on the perpetrators in of the violence in the Darfur province of Sudan. The two powers, joined by Qatar, used their position on a UN sanctions committee to block the...

Monday April 10, 2006 10:01 PM AP Photo XJD107 By EMMANUEL CAMILLO Associated Press Writer MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - African leaders launched a campaign to get every child in school by 2015, and Britain responded Monday by pledging $15 billion in education aid to developing countries over...

Pamela Fayerman, CanWest News Service; Vancouver Sun Published: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 VANCOUVER -- Men in British Columbia now lead the world in male life expectancy at a ripe old 79.2 years of age, eclipsing even long-lived Japanese men, who have enjoyed the distinction for decades. B.C...

April 17, 2006 17:59 IST In a move to eliminate child labour, 80,000 working children will be integrated with mainstream education by 2007 under an Indo-US project. The three-year-long INDUS project, launched in February, 2004, as a follow-up of a joint statement on 'Enhanced Indo-US...

Involve 2.5 million volunteers In 2006, the Great American Cleanup is expected to involve close to an estimated 2.5 million people volunteering more than 8 million hours to clean, beautify and improve 16,000 communities during 30,000 events from coast to coast in all 50 states. Activities will...

Honesty is the best policy — except in extortion Woman would have been better off to have kept money she found, but ... BERLIN - When a German woman found a wallet containing 1,000 euros ($1,220) she decided it was better to get a reward from the owner than to keep the money — even if that...

Frog diet keeps stranded Czech from croaking Cut off by floods, man survives by eating amphibians, other small animals PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A Czech man ate frogs and other small animals for four days after he was trapped on an island cut off by flooding, the daily Pravo reported Wednesday...

Wife, shall I compare thee to a donkey? And should the donkey object? Text says animals make better companions NEW DELHI - A textbook used in western India compares housewives to donkeys — and concludes that the pack animals make more loyal companions, a newspaper reported Tuesday. "A donkey...

Briton held as terror suspect over punk song Lyric from Clash anthem 'London Calling' raised suspicions of taxi driver LONDON - British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band...

Easter's tough for bunnies in New Zealand 400 shooters converge for the 15th Great Easter Bunny Hunt WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Message to the Easter Bunny: You're not welcome in New Zealand. Hundreds of hunters will stalk and shoot thousands of rabbits over Easter as part of moves to cut...

Accused burglar takes cameras, leaves tape Surveillance videos show suspect’s trademark chaps and trench coat ELKO, Nev. - A man accused of burglarizing a laundromat in Elko figured he made a clean escape over the weekend when he took off with the store's six video surveillance cameras. But it...

Hawaii may honor fish with long name Legislature wants humuhumunukunukuapuaa to reclaim state title HONOLULU - The humuhumunukunukuapuaa officially lost its title as the state fish more than a decade ago but is set to reclaim the honor. A bill reinstating the critter -- known as humuhumu for...

Trade a paper clip for a house? On the Internet, almost anything is possible Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else — and so on and so on until he...

German cat credited with saving baby’s life Meowing draws attention to abandoned child at risk from hypothermia BERLIN - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel's ambassador to the United Nations called actions by Iran, Syria and Palestinian leaders "declarations of war," but the Palestinian envoy said Israel's attacks on Gaza were inhumane and violated international law. The two diplomats on Monday...

TORONTO - Canada confirmed a case of mad cow disease on Sunday at a farm in British Columbia — the country's fifth case since May 2003, when the United States closed its border to Canadian beef. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Thursday it had a suspected case of bovine spongiform...